A gathering of community members and the cultivation of arts in our community last week resulted in plenty of good news to share.

Let’s take a look back at some of the highlights from last week before we prepare for the week ahead:

-Current and former residents of Minor Street gathered for the neighborhood’s annual Minorville Jubilee, a block party that spans the length of the street and draws people from across the country. Jubilee committee members used this year’s festivities, which included cookouts, voter registration drives and other events, as a launching point to revitalize the tightly knit community. We’re glad to see the annual Jubilee going strong.

-Researchers from the Classical Institute of the South and the Winterthur Program are in Natchez visiting antebellum homes and preserved private houses to catalogue fine and decorative arts. The students, who spent time at Stanton Hall, save all of the information they collect into a database for future research. We’re happy to have the students here and thank them for helping preserve Natchez’s history.

-Celebrated actor Danny Glover visited with area children in Liberty as part of a fundraiser for The Gloster Project, a free summer arts camp hosted and organized by professional artists from across the country. The program aims to cultivate young talent in the area, while also providing an outlet for youth in the community. Glover said that type of cultivation is exactly what more rural communities need, and we couldn’t agree more.

Summer will be over before we know it, so let’s take advantage of the time left and continue doing great things in our community.